110 Unpardonable Quotes

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There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The only unforgivable sin: Being unforgiving. — Malcolm Forbes

The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices. — Aleister Crowley

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp

Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. — Igor Stravinsky

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. — William Hazlitt

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living. — Carl Jung

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. - Publilius Syrus

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. — Publilius Syrus

Forgive them even if they are not sorry — Julian Casablancas

Without forgiveness, there's no future. — Desmond Tutu

To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. — C. S. Lewis

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time. — Alice Munro

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. — John Bunyan

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence. — James Anthony Froude

Short Unpardonable Quotes

  • Long hair is an unpardonable offense which should be punishable by death. — Steven Morrissey
  • The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. — Emma Goldman
  • I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude. — Brigham Young
  • ...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. — Galen Starr Ross
  • Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin. — Thomas Huxley
  • cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin. — Rae Foley
  • Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows. — Ambrose Bierce
  • Coercion. The unpardonable crime. — Dorothy Richardson
  • I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin. — Theodore Roosevelt

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Unpardonable Quotes

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. — G. K. Chesterton

What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them. — Bartolome de las Casas

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person. — Galen Starr Ross

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him. — Saint Basil

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. — Thomas Huxley

There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture. — Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde

Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Pardonable Quotes

I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge; I pardon those who have occasioned my death; and I pray to God that the blood you are going to shed may never be visited on France. — Louis XVI of France

Christians, hasten to help your brothers in the East, for they are being attacked. Arm for the rescue of Jerusalem under your captain Christ. Wear his cross as your badge. If you are killed your sins will be pardoned. — Pope Urban II

Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining. — Ibn Taymiyyah

The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually, your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass. — Queen Elizabeth II

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi

Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions. — John Bunyan

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine — Marie Antoinette

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. — Zoroaster

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong. — Maxim Gorky

Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol! — Mikhail Bulgakov

Unforgivable Quotes

There is no word more "dangerous" than liberalism, because to oppose it is the new "unforgivable sin." — Fulton J. Sheen

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure. — Bette Davis

It is unforgiveable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds. — Christian Dior

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly. — Theodore Roosevelt

This is a very unforgiving country when you show this country its warts, when you hold the mirror up. If you happen not to share their beliefs, they'll kill you. — H. Rap Brown

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die. — Debbie Ford

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable. — Fulton J. Sheen

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. — Joe Biden

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. — Rudyard Kipling

Whether fighting or spitting, my discipline is unforgiving! — John Cena

Unforgivable Sin Quotes

The unforgivable sin of Hitler's Germany was to develop a new economic system by which the international bankers were deprived of their profits. — Unknown Author

Beckett does not believe in God, though he seems to imply that God has committed an unforgivable sin by not existing. — Anthony Burgess

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor. — Faina Ranevskaya

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor. — Jorge Luis Borges

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim. — Graham Greene

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes. — Neil Kinnock

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty. — Tennessee Williams

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring. — Christopher Hitchens

That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned! — Margaret Mitchell

America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure. — Evelyn Anthony

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More Unpardonable Quotes

abroad it is our habit to regard all other travelers in the light of personal and unpardonable grievances. They are intruders into our chosen realms of pleasure, they jar upon our sensibilities, they lessen our meager share of comforts, they are everywhere in our way, they are always an unnecessary feature in the landscape. — Agnes Repplier

I would agree that much with people who accept private property - that conscription is an unpardonable transgression, whether it be "corrupt" or not. The Spanish anarchists opposed conscription during the civil war in Spain as a gross expropriation of property, the most precious property that we have, our own physical beings themselves. — Murray Bookchin

We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people. — Eduardo Galeano

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable. — Thomas Paine

When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin. — Ichabod Spencer

And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept. — Jean Cocteau

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy. — Anthony Bourdain

I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never together, and what a waste they have been--of each other, and of love, which is the most unpardonable waste there is. Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. — Gary Jennings

... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage--only for appendages and dead weights to husbands--of bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselves--is an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin. — Harriot Kezia Hunt

Cannabis, just like morphine, has its usage in medicine. It's unpardonable that authorities forbid sick people access to this medicament and in majesty of law permit to sell cigarettes. — Jerzy Vetulani

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. — Charles Edward Merriam

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable. — James Whistler

There is nothing so unpardonable as to consent to a senseless, aimless, purposeless life. — Robert Browning

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment." — Richard Dawkins

I have seen that every one forgives much in themselves that they find unpardonable in other people. — Amelia Barr

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin. — Dorothy L. Sayers

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit. — Rebecca West

It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable. — Agnes Repplier

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act. — Edmund Burke

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog. — Thomas Huxley

To misuse one's talent, to be cavalier about it, to set it aside because of fear or sloth is unpardonable. — James Lee Burke

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes. — Lee De Forest

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt. — William Styron

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